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November three: Berchelt and Roman Set For Toe-to-Toe Battle in El Paso

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Live from Don Haskins Center on November three and streaming completely on ESPN+ at 9:30 pm ET
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EL PASO, Texas (Sept. 15, 2018) – They have talked the talk. The time to throw down is close to.
For Miguel “El Alacrán” Berchelt and Miguel “Mickey” Roman, that is the fight they demanded, a throwback all-Mexican war that guarantees to supply at the pre-fight bluster.


Berchelt will make the fourth defense of his WBC splendid featherweight title towards Roman on Saturday, Nov. 3 on the Don Haskins Center on the campus of The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Berchelt-Roman and a quickly-to-be announced co-characteristic will flow live inside the United States beginning at nine:30 p.M. ET on ESPN
Promoted by way of Top Rank, in association with Zanfer Promotions and Promociones del Pueblo, tickets are on sale now. Priced at $250, $one hundred fifty, $75, $45, and $35, tickets may be bought online at Ticketmaster.Com, all Ticketmaster shops, and in person on the UTEP Ticket Center.

“Top Rank is very pleased a good way to gift a absolutely superb championship fight among  Mexican warriors inside the incredible city of El Paso, which has hosted so many sizable boxing activities inside the beyond,” stated Top Rank CEO Bob Arum.

“I actually have desired this fight for a completely long time,” Berchelt said. “Roman has been talking lots. I can’t wait to be inside the ring with him. I am happy to fight in El Paso, that is the suitable vicinity for a combat like this. I will display all the fanatics that I am on my manner to becoming one of the excellent Mexican champions.




“Berchelt is in for a large wonder,” Roman stated. “He’s never seen a Mexican warrior like me earlier than. The fans are going to be on my side, and I realize I may be the new WBC champion.”

Berchelt (34-1, 30 KOs), a Cancun native who now is living in Mérida, is an 8-12 months seasoned who's similarly adept at boxing and brawling. The best hiccup on his report befell on March 15, 2014, whilst a left hook from Luis Eduardo Florez placed Berchelt down within the commencing spherical. While many observers felt the stoppage become a piece untimely, Berchelt rebounded to win his subsequent nine bouts by using knockout, which includes prevailing a WBO period in-between 130-pound title, earlier than challenging Francisco Vargas for the WBC excellent featherweight identify on Jan. 28, 2017. In one of the year’s quality fights, Berchelt landed greater than four hundred punches, breaking down Vargas en course to an 11th-round knockout victory. In his first identify protection, he outboxed Takashi Miura to score a extensive unanimous decision win. Berchelt is two-zero in 2018, maximum currently knocking out former international champion Jonathan Barros within the 1/3 round in a fight that streamed on ESPN+.

Roman (60-12, forty seven KOs), from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, is a fifteen-yr seasoned whose returned-and-forth battles have earned him a reputation as considered one of the sport’s most dependable movement stars. He’s fought a litany of the sport’s pinnacle warring parties from 122 to one hundred thirty five kilos. In a kind of seven-month stretch from November 2013 to June 2014, he scored knockout victories over former global champions Daniel Ponce De Leon and Juan Carlos Salgado. Roman, who previously challenged for international titles at featherweight and light-weight, may be making his 1/3 strive at a global identify. He made an impact on American fight lovers whilst he fought Miura at the Berchelt vs. Vargas undercard. Despite being knocked out in the twelfth and final spherical by way of Miura, Roman battled through a vicious reduce round his proper eye. Roman is four-0 since the Miura defeat, a stretch that includes a TKO win against former two-weight global champion Orlando “Siri” Salido.

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